No more laundromat

Liz is so happy to finally have her washer and dryer. They arrived this afternoon and are all hooked up and ready to go. She's like a little kid - oooooh - new toys.

And we got some more money off the already discounted price due to some minor (almost unnoticeable) scratches on the dryer in transit.

And the local energy company is offering rebates on all new energy efficient appliances - refrigerator, washer, and dryer. That's another small chunk of change to get us through to payday.

I love getting free money!

God grant me the patience to endure to the end...

of the semester.

I'm pretty sure I wrote my syllabi in English, yet none of my students seem to be able to comprehend them.
I know I speak in English, yet none of my students seem to be able to understand me.

I wonder if this is how it was after God confounded the people after the building of the Tower of Babel....

Unplanned Hiatus

We closed on the house on Aug 26th and moved in on Aug 27th. Our new refrigerator/freezer arrived on the afternoon of the 26th, but it took a few days to get water piped to it. Now we have ice and water on demand at the door (it's the little things that make life worth living).

It was three or four more days before I got the computer set up. Arranged with Qwest before we moved to have the service switched over. What neither they nor I knew was that the service line to the house was missing. I plugged in my modem and saw that nothing was happening, so I started poking around the basement and found the wire from the outside hanging down, not connected to anything. Then I went outside and found the wire to the junction box in a coil laying on top of the box.

Why is it that people at customer service assume the customer doesn't know what they're talking about? I told them that 1) there are phone jacks all over the house and 2) the house wasn't connected to the grid. So what do they put on the service ticket? That I need a phone jack installed in the house! And this was a native speaker of English in Salt Lake City, not a farmed out phone jockey in India!

If I knew anything (more than enough to be dangerous) about the wiring of data lines, I would have had it done before today (the earliest Qwest CenturyLink could make it out).

Our washer and dryer were scheduled to be delivered on Sept 1st, but the washer is on back order until the 8th 15th (maybe). I don't want to cancel the order because we're saving over $700 on the pair over retail pricing (and still getting brand new factory fresh machines).

Got garage cleaned out yesterday and have room for the car. Now to get a garage door opener (other than my arms).

Next project for Liz - find a place to put our clothes. One of our dressers absorbed moisture and grew mold in storage. Once particle board is infiltrated with mold, there's nothing to do with it except throw it away. The trash man carted it off this morning.

Honey-do list:

1. Dresser for our clothes.
2. Shelves for food storage.
3. Shelves for books
4. Get stuff stored in MT shipped to IA.
5. Doggy door for the pooch.

Me-wanna-do list

1. Solar hot water for house
2. Solar heating for garage
3. Build basement workshop
4. Organize tools in basement workshop
5. Garage door opener
6. Backyard grill
7. Extend front porch
8. Build back yard deck
9. Invisible fence for not-so invisible Bassett Hound.